Neonatal Anesthesia Crossword

Pratibha Jain Shah

doi:10.25259/JNCCA_13_2026

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10.25259/JNCCA_13_2026

Neonatal Anesthesia Crossword

Pratibha Jain Shah^1,

1Department of Anaesthesiology, Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Medical College, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.

*Corresponding author: Pratibha Jain Shah, Department of Anaesthesiology, Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Medical College, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. drpratibhashah@gmail.com

Received: 2026-04-06, Accepted: 2026-04-10, Published: 2026-08-13

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How to cite this article: Shah PJ. Neonatal Anesthesia Crossword. J Neonatal Crit Care Anesth. 2026;3:18-9. doi: 10.25259/JNCCA_13_2026

NEONATAL ANESTHESIA CROSSWORD

NEONATAL ANESTHESIA CROSSWORD — CLUES

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3. Lysosomal storage disorder causing coarse facies and a difficult airway (21)

5. Syndrome with micrognathia, glossoptosis and cleft palate (11)

6. Component of Pierre Robin sequence causing airway obstruction (12)

8. Tumor causing persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in neonates (15)

9. Congenital blockage of the posterior nasal passage by bone or membrane (14)

11. Screening test to diagnose phenylketonuria in neonates (7)

13. Intraoperatively, newborns are prone to this (11)

14. Most appropriate day of life for screening congenital hypothyroidism (5)

16. Genetic syndrome with hypocalcemia and difficult airway - 22q11 deletion (8)

17. Syndrome associated with severe congenital neutropenia (8)

20. 21-___: Enzyme deficient in congenital adrenal hyperplasia (11)

21. Essential amino acid raised in congenital phenylketonuria (13)

22. Inhalational agent most commonly used for neonatal mask induction (11)

NEONATAL ANESTHESIA CROSSWORD - ANSWER KEY

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1. The most common congenital endocrine disorder in neonates (14)

2. Floppy laryngeal tissues collapse on inhalation, causing noisy breathing (14)

4. Direction fetal hemoglobin shifts the oxygen dissociation curve (4)

7. Autonomic system dominant in newborns (15)

10. Anesthetic agent to be avoided in congenital adrenal hyperplasia (9)

11. Enzyme deficient in congenital galactosemia - galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase (4)

12. Common neonatal neurosurgical condition involving CSF accumulation (13)

15. Syndrome characterized by congenital hearing loss, goiter, and hypothyroidism (7)

18. Enzyme deficient in the urea cycle defect causing neonatal hyperammonemia - abbrev. (3)

19. Disease: Accumulation of branched chain amino acids - leucine, isoleucine, valine - abbrev. (4)

FOR FURTHER READING

Davis PJ, Cladis FP, Motoyama EK, editors. Smith’s Anesthesia for Infants and Children. 9^th ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier; 2017.
Gleason CA, Juul SE, editors. Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn. 10th ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier; 2018.
Gupta A, Pandurangi S. Neonatal screening for Metabolic Diseases. In: Saha U, editor. Clinical Anesthesia for the Newborn and the Neonate. 1st ed. Springer; 2023.
Saha U. General Anatomical and Physiological considerations in the Neoborn and Neonates. In: Saha U, editor. Clinical Anesthesia for the Newborn and the Neonate. 1st ed. Springer; 2023.
Kliegman RM, St. Geme JW, Blum NJ, Shah SS, Tasker RC, Wilson KM, editors. A Practice of Anesthesia for Infants and Children. 6th ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier; 2019.